ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an outline of recommended content for violence therapy, focusing on therapeutic treatment content. It presents a review of core content considerations, illustrating this, as appropriate, using a Multi-Modal Integrated Therapy (MMIT) – namely, the Life Minus Violence-Enhanced programme. The chapter demonstrates the core content requirements required for aggression therapy, with a focus on information processing, emotional management, and relapse prevention incorporating a strength-based approach. Regardless of the exact nature or emphasis of therapeutic treatment for violence, there are five domains treatment should have in common if treatment needs are to be fully reflected. These are the areas of information processing; emotional acceptance, reactivity, and regulation; developmental changes; aggression motivation; and relapse prevention and strength enhancement. In view of the interplay between cognitions and emotions in aggression expression it is important to digress slightly at this point to the method by which emotions can be engendered in a controlled fashion during therapy.
